How will a Trump presidency affect you?

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EyeballKid said:
Well—it happened. Just received notice that I’ve been laid off, effective at the end of the month.

Most of my work was based on contracts with CDC, CMS, and NIH. That work has dried up significantly over the past few months, thanks to Trump. And so…here we are.

Fuck me.
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So sorry. That really sucks. I hope you're able to pivot or adjust to a new position as quickly as possible. I know it's a very stressful time.
 
Ramrouser said:
WRONG. While I support DOGE generally and broadly, that doesn't mean I'm happy or gleeful about any individual's personal job loss. That sucks.
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Coward.

You were cheering for these stupid and indiscriminate cuts understanding full well that they would result in many people losing their jobs.

Have the courage of your "convictions" here.
 
Ramrouser said:
WRONG. While I support DOGE generally and broadly, that doesn't mean I'm happy or gleeful about any individual's personal job loss. That sucks.
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To be clear, my organization has let go about 30% of our staff—around 625 people. Another couple hundred are working reduced hours.

This isn’t about any individual’s job loss (though I won’t lie—it hurts). It’s about the fact that DOGE’s deep, indiscriminate cuts to key scientific and healthcare institutions have already severely crippled our country in ways that you’re either ignorant of or support.
 
farce© said:
So you support the program, just not its results? Keep telling yourself that.
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It’s the existential problem with DOGE and the cost-cutting impulses behind it. Our federal spending is already damn lean, which means if there’s “waste” to be cut, it will almost certainly be jobs that the cost-cutters deem superfluous or unnecessary. It’s logically impossible to support DOGE while regretting the job losses from DOGE cuts.
 
Ramrouser said:
WRONG. While I support DOGE generally and broadly, that doesn't mean I'm happy or gleeful about any individual's personal job loss. That sucks.
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See, that's the problem with folks like you. You "care" but always just up to the point where it interferes with your perogatives...then it's all thoughts and prayers.
 
ZenMode said:
Were you unhappy when Clinton/Gore ended more than 100 programs and ended positions for hundreds of thousands of government employees?
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They did it in a much more grownup way, including not replacing employees who retire. It wasn’t the slapdash approach of DOGE.

I don’t think anyone is opposed to an intelligent approach to right sizing the government

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Fact Check: Clinton initiative cut over 377K federal jobs in the 1990s. It's not comparable to Trump's effort

Social media posts claimed Donald Trump and Elon Musk had simply "learned from the master" in their attempts to cut government jobs.
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StrangePackage said:
Coward.

You were cheering for these stupid and indiscriminate cuts understanding full well that they would result in many people losing their jobs.

Have the courage of your "convictions" here.
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Are you not cheering for illegal immigrants when they take the jobs of citizens when you promote open borders?
 
So the Board's position is that no federal job and/or federal program can be cut by a Republican? It's ok for Clinton to cut 377k federal jobs and you can support THAT and feel like a good and virtuous person but if you support DOGE (and Trump) and someone loses a federal job you're a heartless "Coward."

It's the same theory with deportations of illegals. Obama: Good Trump: BAD....REALLY BAD.
 
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